Friday, January 6th 2017
AMD Ryzen 8 Core/16 Thread CPU ES Now Run at 3.6 GHz base, 3.9 GHz Boost
The folks at hardwareluxx managed to get some quality alone time with AMD's Ryzen demonstration boot at CES 2017, and it has to be said they used their time well. They managed to bring up Windows' System page, as well as its Device Manager, which seemingly confirmed that the Ryzen sample at use, though an engineering sample it was, was set at 3.6 GHz base clock with the capability to boost up to 3.9 GHz on a whim - up 200 MHz from the base clock speed of the sample used at AMD's New Horizon Event, where even at those speeds, the chip was shown beating an 8 core, 16 thread i7 6900K. You can see those clocks at the below screenshot, where "1D3601A2M88F3_39/36_N" (the code for the engineering sample Ryzen chip) makes it clear this is an F3 stepping processor, with the 39 referring to the boost clock, and the 36 referring to its base clock.
This goes right into AMD's claims of 3.4 GHz being the lowest frequency a Ryzen consumer processor would carry. It seems AMD is quickly galloping towards the finish line here, and as Lisa Su said at the New Horizon presentation, Ryzen chips can only improve until their promised launch, with an already rumored F4 stepping of the processor carrying a rounded-up, 4 GHz boost clock.
Source:
Hardwareluxx.de
This goes right into AMD's claims of 3.4 GHz being the lowest frequency a Ryzen consumer processor would carry. It seems AMD is quickly galloping towards the finish line here, and as Lisa Su said at the New Horizon presentation, Ryzen chips can only improve until their promised launch, with an already rumored F4 stepping of the processor carrying a rounded-up, 4 GHz boost clock.
48 Comments on AMD Ryzen 8 Core/16 Thread CPU ES Now Run at 3.6 GHz base, 3.9 GHz Boost
What i'm really intersted in tho are some 4k gaming (not just BF1& SW Rogue One) & Prime95 (or any other torture test) tests sneak peeks, teasers or some such sh!t.
P.S. *Meaning with the salary i earn n taxes in IsraHell lol jk especially M.2 SSDs cost a f*ckload of moneyz. I'd stick with SATA IIIs stead, maybe when prices drop i'd go for M.2 variant of that 512GB SSD.
if it plans to take on intel's LGA 115x line, the $500 price tag isnt going to cut it either.
Kabylake at close to 5GHz will be the better choice (even Skylake) than Zen which even optimistically won't match those clocks.
AMD will be targeting Zen on a core by core front. That's the logical conclusion. Yes, the 4 core part will be against KL but the initial top end release will be against the HEDT segment.
All HEDT is is a market distortion created by Intel's monopoly. Core counts could easily have risen under mainstream 115x sockets, but Intel purposefully did that. On top of this, who the hell can use HEDT's PCIE counts anyway. SLi only supports 2 cards now, sli and crossfire suck and are often unsupported, and most boards have good enough sound (if your not using a usb dac anyway), sata ports and networking to make almost everyone happy. And if your really that desperate, I'm sure someone will slap a PLX chip on a few boards.
Sorry if this came across as harsh, and yes, it some ways AMD is comparing the Zen platform to HEDT (as again, its the only Intel competition with comparable core counts), but everything else about its strategy shows it aiming at the mainstream market.
As for RyZen competing with Intel's HEDT as well; back when AM4 launched, I remember reading that AM4 will be the only consumer desktop socket; spanning from value systems to high-end enthusiast desktops.
I wrote before their CPU would be much better if they'd turbo up to 4GHz with just four cores rather then all 8.
This build will need to net me 6+ years